Professor W. L. Glass. The Owensville Academy with Glass as
superintendent, offered instruction in writing, spelling, reading,
arithmetic, geography, grammar and music.
Later Prof. and Mrs. Glass operated a school owned by themselves at
Wheelock. To them came their orphaned niece, Cornelia Ann Taylor, from
Forkland, Alabama, on the Tom Bigbee River. Annie was a beauty at
thirteen and stirred the envy of her aunt whose daughter was not so
pretty. Annie's hair haloed her head in red brown ringletts and nothing
could stop their curling. Aunt Dell bethought herself how she might
diminish the charms of the new girl in the community and cut the hair of
the little niece. No amount of cutting, not even the boyish cut Annie
finally got at her aunt's hands, stopped the curling of the beautiful
hair about the piquant face of little Annie.
Jim Cavitt who married Cornelia Ann Rutland Taylor, told me that he was
so angry at the treatment accorded the teen-age Annie, he married her to
save her from her aunt's vengefulness and her uncle's inability to
prevent it. They were married while Annie was still sixteen...but as she
always told it..."shortly before my seventeenth birthday"...in April
before she was 17 in November.
These facts were written by Newton C. Duncan and appeared in the Dallas
News, October 10, 1895:
Marlin in 1836 was nothing more than the family of John Marlin who lived
at the Marlin Springs on the edge of the Brazos Bottom, about two miles
from the site of the present town. John Marlin lived in a double house
made of hewn cedar logs. His family consisted of himself, his wife, four
sons and two daughters.
Andrew Cavitt, with his wife and seven small sons besides a number of
slaves (20), settled near this family. After the Alamo fell into the
hands of the Mexicans, it was reported that the Mexicans were raiding
the country and that Gen. Cos was on his way to overrun our section
trying to capture Sterling Robertson, who was impresario of the colony
of which Marlin was a settlement. Robertson's headquarters were at
Viesca, across the Brazos from Marlin settlement.
James Coryell was a lifelong friend of Andrew Cavitt and his family.
Judge Fulmore, in his history and geography of Texas, as told in
"Country Names", Chapter 12, states James Coryel1 was born in Tennessee
in 1801 and moved to Illinois in 1822. I knew him at Viesca. James
Coryel1 first came to Texas in 1828 or 1829, coming down the Ohio and
Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans and from there to mouth of the Brazos
and then to San Antonio where he remained some time. The next we knew of
him he joined the company under Bowie to search for the Mexican Silver
Mines near San Saba. Later he stayed at San Antonio some time and then
came to Viesca, near the falls of the Brazos, the headquarters of
Sterling Robertson. In the organization of the Ranger Service, Coryell
became a member of Capt. Thos. H. Barrows Company. Afterwards he joined
Capt. Geo. B. Erath's co. and was stationed for a time at the fort at
Viesca. Coryell seemed to have divided his time between the Ranger
Service and surveying, often helping to provide protection for surveying
parties against surprise attacks from hostile Indians.
Volney Cavitt told me, "My father, Andrew Cavitt, came to Texas in the
year 1834 in company with a friend, a young man who was a surveyor,
named James Coryell. They went together and located their headrights
leagues in the Sterling Robertson Colony on the Leon River and Coryell
Creek in what is now called Coryell County."
In the sketch of Sterling Robertson, by Mrs. R. H. Harrison, she states
"Robertson, in the spring and summer of 1834, visited the states of
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, and made known the great
inducements afforded by Texas to settlers." It is likely James Coryell
accompanied Robertson on this trip as an assistant. Tennessee was
Coryell's home state after he grew to manhood. While there he visited
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